The president and his aides are privately nervous about Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance’s investigation. But they see electoral upside in it too.
Donald Trump may be facing mounting legal troubles. But for his political advisers, it amounts to electoral gold.
The former president and his team of trusted confidants are planning to use a familiar tactic as authorities in New York ramp up their legal investigations into his private business dealings. They will cast doubt on the investigators, deflect to other issues and claim it is all a partisan “witch hunt.”
The script is familiar. Trump’s team believes the outcome will be, too: conservative voters rallying to his side as he assumes the victim’s role.
“They are using their power to destroy their number one political enemy. They are trying to crush him,” said Matt Schlapp, a Trump-world confidant and chair of the American Conservative Union, who warned of an era of overly-political prosecutions targeting prominent politicians. “And will there be reverberations from that that will benefit Trump from that, absolutely.”
The latest sign of Trump’s growing legal woes arrived this week, when reports broke that a special grand jury in Manhattan had convened to decide whether or not to indict the former president or executives at the Trump Organization over business and tax practices and the management of his international real estate portfolio. Privately, Trump and those close to him conceded that they are nervous about Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance reaching the culmination of his investigation. But publicly, they expect the former president to use his legal plight to gin up support from his base of supporters — and fuel chatter about a 2024 run.
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Trump and his confidants are planning to use a familiar tactic as NY authorities ramp up their legal investigations into his business dealings. They'll cast doubt on the investigators, deflect to other issues and call it a partisan “witch hunt.” https://t.co/aTOtzgKHin
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